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Three times a year, Florida students are given the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking, or FAST, to monitor individual student progress in English and language arts and mathematics. In Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, proficiency in grades for both categories rose from last year.

Florida education officials say 鈥渟peculative鈥� damages caused by the state鈥檚 voucher system aren鈥檛 their fault. In a 40-page response to the Florida Education Association鈥檚 lawsuit filed in May, attorneys for the state argued the resolution plaintiffs want won鈥檛 be accomplished by the suit they filed.

The policy change went through its first round of approvals on Thursday. This comes as the Department of Education will vote on banning undocumented students from public colleges and GED programs as well.

A national free speech group is demanding that Florida International University drop disciplinary charges against seven students who staged a March 13 silent protest against university cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on campus.

The superintendent of Los Angeles public schools has resigned four months after he was put on paid leave during a federal investigation. The district's Board of Education announced Monday that it had received a resignation letter from Alberto Carvalho. It was effective as of Sunday. He had been on paid leave since February after the FBI searched his home and district headquarters.

Dozens of people came to honor the estimated 2 million people who died at sea during the Middle Passage 鈥� the brutal forced voyages that carried over 10 million African captives across the Atlantic.

Students stood in silent protest against the university's collaboration with ICE during a campus event. The school says because the protest was inside, it violated school conduct policies.

The state added over a thousand jobs in private K-12 education while losing more than 5,000 public school jobs in the last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Florida鈥檚 largest school district 鈥� Miami-Dade 鈥� attracted scant interest from candidates for its Aug. 18 school board election, guaranteeing reelection for three of the four incumbents whose terms are up.

At its meeting last week, the School Board of Palm Beach County voted to write a letter to county commissioners requesting more information about the center and review how it could affect students and staff.